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  • Literature

    Jeremy Lewison 13-15

  • Catalogue Essay

    The Lana series consists of three states. Lana 2 and Lana 3 combine the two screens of Lana with one further screen. In Lana Marden drew onto the screen with a crayon, emphasized the strokes, and printed it black. He then printed a flat grey-blue. The hatching on the first screen is sufficiently dense to break through the flat colour whose edge is subverted by the crayon marks which spill over the border along the bottom. The texture of this print is almost a screenprinted equivalent to the painting Last Dylan Study, 1964-6. Marden states that he did not cut any screens and thinks that he must either have drawn the edges or have taped them. In Lana 2 he added a flat, warm grey screen, which in Lana 3 he printed pink. The crayon marks which overlap the border indicate the progressive stages of the print and to that extent the passage of time. However, because of the transparency of the ink each layer retains a ghostly presence in the main body of the final state. Marden was not interested in the perfect finish achieved by a number of his contemporaries, such as Kelly, but retained evidence of the autographic mark, associated with Abstract Expressionism, as a transmitter of feeling.
    Jeremy Lewison Brice Marden Prints 1961-1991, Tate Gallery, p 21

  • Artist Biography

    Brice Marden

    American • 1938 - N/A

    Born in Bronxville and working between New York City, Tivoli, New York, and Hydra, Greece, Brice Marden developed a unique style that departs from his Abstract Expressionist and Minimalist contemporaries. Drawing from his personal experiences and global travels, Marden’s works demonstrate a gestural and organic emotion channeled through the power of color. By the late 1960s, Marden received international recognition as the master of the monochrome panel and, in the late 1970s, began exploring the relationship between horizontal and vertical planes. His practice is deeply informed by his knowledge of classical architecture, world religion, ancient history, and spirituality. Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 1998, Marden is represented in notable institutional collections including the Whitney Museum of Art, New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

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Lana; Lana 2; and Lana 3

1966
The complete set of three screenprints in colors, on wove paper, with full margins,
all I. 11 x 15 3/4 in. (27.9 x 40 cm)
all S. approx. 20 x 24 in. (50.8 x 61 cm)

all signed and numbered 4/11 (there were also at least 2 artist’s proofs), published and printed by the artist, all in very good condition, all framed.

Estimate
$18,000 - 25,000 

Sold for $50,000

Evening Editions

26 October 2011
New York